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A View of Queer History through Photography
By Ignacio Darnaude
..I’ve never experienced the kind of electricity I felt heading to this exhibit. Conversations buzzed in anticipation of “Queer Lens: A History of Photography.”
Joan E. Biren’s Eye to Eye
By Llewyn Blossfeld
When I was 21 years old and searching for a thesis topic during the COVID-19 pandemic, I thought about the first lesbian photograph I remember seeing.
Film Roundup – Provincetown Int’l Film Festival
We leave Northern Europe behind at last for a passage to India, its climatic opposite, where manicured interiors give way to the crowded indoor-outdoor spaces of a hotter clime.
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How I Got Out
By Vee Bassey
I was raised in a strict, fundamentalist Christian household in Lagos State, Nigeria, where my family referred to homosexuality as “a sin to God, worthy of eternal damnation in Hell.”
We Had to Pretend
By Bella Chacha
They moved into an apartment in Lagos. They posted carefully curated photos on Instagram–of them in matching outfits, filtered beach selfies, casual videos of cooking jollof together.
Love is a Revolutionary Act
By Ingrid Hu Dahl
I was born in 1980 to my parents—an interracial couple who fell in love and bravely chose one another, despite racial, familial, and cultural expectations.
Book Reviews
Let There Be Art
Elias commissioned essays from nineteen artists, critics, writers, and scholars for Speculative Light, including Baldwin biographers Nicholas Boggs, Robert Reid-Pharr, Magdalena Zaborowska, and Leeming.
Young man, there’s a place you can go.
“THIS IS A BOOK about a staircase and the men who lived on it.” Thus Simon Goldhill begins his alternative history of Cambridge University. The staircase is located in the Gibbs Building, a beautiful 18th-century structure where the teachers and students of King’s College have lived and learned together for centuries.
A 17th-Century Martyr for Sin
Larry Carver’s Rochester and the Pursuit of Pleasure is the fifth full-length monograph on Rochester to appear in the past fifty years, and the first to treat The Farce of Sodom as a pivotal work in Rochester’s development as a poet and satirist rather than as a piece of cheap pornography.
Treacherous Intersections
Organized in six parts, Black Panther Woman contains many revelations. Besides describing Huggins’s family background, the first part details her rejection of her mother’s Old Testament Christianity and the early self-protective thought practices she developed to cope with her father’s physically abusive behavior.
Divided Loyalties
IN The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf, Kaila Adia Story makes a compelling case for recognizing the continuing racism, classism, transphobia, and sexism in today’s queer communities, a legacy of the limited “gay rights” movement that gathered strength after the Stonewall Riots of June 1969.
‘Any time is horny time.’
In Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard, editor Daniel Kane, an American literature professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, compiles a collection of Brainard’s undated letters to various friends and lovers.
